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<h2> House of Representatives Voting Data </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>Voting results for 15 congressmen from New Jersey.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data("voting")</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A 15 times 15 matrix.
</p>


<h3>Details</h3>

<p>Romesburg (1984) gives a set of data that shows the number
of times 15 congressmen from New Jersey voted differently in 
the House of Representatives on 19 environmental bills. Abstentions
are not recorded.
</p>


<h3>Source</h3>

<p>H. C. Romesburg (1984), <em>Cluster Analysis for Researchers</em>.
Lifetime Learning Publications, Belmont, Canada.
</p>


<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>

  data("voting", package = "HSAUR")
  require("MASS")
  voting_mds &lt;- isoMDS(voting)
  plot(voting_mds$points[,1], voting_mds$points[,2],
       type = "n", xlab = "Coordinate 1", ylab = "Coordinate 2",
       xlim = range(voting_mds$points[,1])*1.2)
  text(voting_mds$points[,1], voting_mds$points[,2], 
       labels = colnames(voting))
  voting_sh &lt;- Shepard(voting[lower.tri(voting)], voting_mds$points)

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